Joe Biden has taken a commanding lead in the race to become the 2020 Democratic presidential candidate, but you wouldn’t know it by his silence during the coronavirus pandemic.
As things become more dire across the country, President Trump has taken to daily press briefings that are devolving, per usual, into horror shows. Somewhere between five to five hundred people stand at the podium with him, each one of them offering their increasingly bad bits of news. Trump himself has berated reporters, spread false information, and looked like his typical buffoonish self.
Many senators and congresspeople have made headlines as well, either through their stimulus plans to help Americans or through the public finding out that a bunch of scumbags in Congress sold stock before the market tanked, knowing full well what was about to happen while remaining silent on every other front.
Even Bernie Sanders – though this should come as no surprise – has been extremely vocal in his plans to help Americans through this, using his platform to offer substantial solutions to this unique problem the country faces.
So… where is Joe Biden? His staff has been sending his usual platitude-heavy tweets, where one of his big plans has been to ask companies to refrain from buying back their own stocks for a whole year – weeee! He did also appear in a very awkward video after his latest primary victories, but since then… nothing.
We’re really just going to let him coast on saying he’d name a woman as his vice president for the next few months, huh?
I figure his staff knows full well the potential damage in having Biden do or say, well, anything, and COVID-19 provides more than enough cover for them to just lay low for a while. Let Donald Trump continue to dig his own grave, I assume they are probably thinking. The nomination is sealed at this point, so why bother?
Which is the exact problem with Biden in the first place. He’s a candidate with no real ideas, no real plans for the country. He’s a visionless career politician who is running for president because that’s just what you do when you’re someone like him. We’ll just continue our slow, agonizing march to November, which has only been made more agonizing in this new era of self-isolation and economic turmoil.
But Biden could be the voice to ease the American people where Trump has utterly failed. This is his moment to show his ability to be a leader during a crisis, and he’s chosen instead to stay silent. I’m not saying Biden has to solve the whole damn pandemic, but if you’re the presumptive Democratic nominee, I’d expect to hear from you more than this.
Though as the bare-minimum candidate being forced upon us, we should have probably expected this.
